A Companion to African-American Philosophy [Paperback]

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• Provides a comprehensive critical survey of African-American philosophical thought.
  
• Collects wide-ranging, multidisciplinary, newly commissioned articles in one authoritative volume.
  
• Serves as a benchmark work of reference for courses in philosophy, social and political thought, cultural studies, and African-American studies.

Notes on Contributors viii

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xv

Part I Philosophic Traditions

Introduction to Part I 3

1 Philosophy and the Afro-American Experience 7
CORNEL WEST

2 African-American Existential Philosophy 33
LEWIS R. GORDON

3 African-American Philosophy: A Caribbean Perspective 48
PAGET HENRY

4 Modernisms in Black 67
FRANK M. KIRKLAND

5 The Crisis of the Black Intellectual 87
HORTENSE J. SPILLERS

Part II The Moral and Political Legacy of Slavery

Introduction to Part II 107

6 Kant and Knowledge of Disappearing Expression 110
RONALD A. T. JUDY

7 Social Contract Theory, Slavery, and the Antebellum Courts 125
ANITA L. ALLEN AND THADDEUS POPE

8 The Morality of Reparations II 134